Fascinating INFP's

[LPolaright]

Recently I've talked to an INFP over the net (on the MSN) and I've noticed a weird fascination that he had.

He likes "damaged" people.

By damaged, I mean Narcissistic, Sociopathic, Psychopathic, Schizophrenics and all kinds of mental illnesses. After a conversation with him I concluded that he is simply fascinated by them because he wants to have the challenge of "fix"ing them.

That means that it's not his fascination that is explicit to INFP's but his will to "fix" them.

Also he said that he does not believe in grouping people and give them shared attributes (what MBTI stands for) and is anti-racist in all possible ways. But in a way he contradicts himself when he agrees with me when he says that he likes "damaged" people - not entirely but the basis of contradiction is there.

I know I'm also fascinated by damaged personalities and people - but I most certainly don't want to "fix" them, but to understand how they perceive the world. I don't have a real need to try and change them because I know that doctors and psychologists will do their jobs.


Do you know any more kinds of fascinating INFP's? All other INFP's that I met believe either in tarot cards or astrology - none of them are interesting for a long period of time.

Also, do you think it could be one "stream" of INFP's? "The Fixers"?

 

[Wish]

Sounds like your INFP might be an INFJ?

 

[Words]

Those traits makes me think more of INFJ's.

Fascinating INFP's? Yes. Apathetic, Te-driven, INFP's. The contrast is interesting because I consider myself Fe-driven and the result is that their colder than me. Else, I typed them wrong.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Also, do you think it could be one "stream" of INFP's? "The Fixers"?

Why generalize?

There are INFPs who focus on feelings and there are INFPs who focus on their inner consciousness. I'm thinking the person you are talking about is the former, if that person is really an INFP.

 

[JarNew]

The few INFPs I have met I would call damaged people LOL

My old best friend was an INFP, she was one of the coolest people I've known and she is also one of the most damaged I've ever met. Needy, obsessive, publicly humiliating boyfriend to be sure he 'loves' her.

 

[kibou]

Generalizing, but I've met a lot more INFJs that want to "fix people" than INFPs. Fi users tend to want to "share emotional experiences" and respect the individual; especially Fi dominants I find are quite gentle in that respect, and tend to get angrier when other people push their subjectives onto the IF_P too much. Fi can be expressed intensely but not really with the goal of changing the other person's inner self, since it's self-focused.

 

[LPolaright]

You people think I didn't consider INFJ?!
Nah, he is definitely an INFP. No doubt.
It's not an aggressive kind of "fixing" people - it's more passive-aggressive.
Almost invisible until you truly discover their true intentions and worldview.

I'm not trying to generalize but there definitely is a pattern.
That's why I said "stream" because it's not a constant it's more dynamic than that - but they do share that generalized sense of the world in a passive-aggressive kind of a way.